The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology





What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of geneti...